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Subject: Re: Position analysis - Fritz 8 took 8 minutes to find move!

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 10:56:30 09/03/03

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On September 03, 2003 at 09:51:56, Uri Blass wrote:

>>>>>[D]5krr/1b2qp2/pp1ppp2/2n2Pbp/P1RNP2R/2N2BP1/2P1Q2P/7K w - - 0 26
>>>>
>>>>q3 didn't get this in ~15 minutes.
>>>>
>>>>00:10:08.9	-0.40	15	510937279	fxe6 fxe6
>>>
>>>fxe6?
>>>
>>>I did not think that it can be good because of Bxh4
>>>I thought that the only alternative that programs may consider is Rxh5
>>>
>>>The main line suggest that q3 even does not expect Bxh4
>>>
>>>I analyzed the position after fxe6 Bxh4 for some minutes with Fritz8 and saw
>>>nothing for white(Nd5 -1.41/13,-1.56/14,-1.56/15)
>>
>>In 2 hours, it goes back to Rxh5.
>
>I do not know what you use but it seems crazy.
>In the Bh6 problem it does not expect black to capture the bishop and evaluates
>it as advantage for white.
>
>In the second problem it likes to sacrifice material for king attack that does
>not exist.
>
>I suspect that you use something to solve test position and not to play games
>and I am not surprised if it fails in my tests.
>
>My test positions were about tactics and I guess that overevaluating king safety
>is not going to help.
>
>Uri

I am using the q3 personality of Rebel 12.0.

It is notorious for being *extremely* good for test positions, and *extremely*
bad at actually playing chess.



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